Summary

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  • Peter Moores appointed Notts head coach

  • Jake Ball takes hat-trick for Notts v Middlesex

  • 21 wickets fall between Warwickshire and Somerset

  • Four points separate Middlesex & Yorkshire

  • American-themed XI #bbccricket

Live Reporting

Phil Shepka

  1. Kent 230 v Northants

    Division Two leaders Essex clearly enjoying the score at Beckenham, where second-placed Kent are playing...

  2. Kent all out

    Kent 230 v Northants

    And with that, Kent are done in their first innings. Kleinveldt takes his third wicket of the day and Northants will have a bit of time to bat this evening. That might be a little nervy, though...

  3. wicket

    WICKET Patel (c Malan b Finn) 100

    Notts 238-9 v Middlesex

    What was I saying about Samit Patel? The commentator's curse in action right there.

    He becomes Steven Finn's fourth dismissal of the day after being caught at deep square leg by Dawid Malan.

  4. Coles out

    Kent 230-9 v Northants

    Big wicket at Kent as Matt Coles, having reached his second fifty in as many innings, is caught off the bowling of Rory Kleinveldt. One more to go, and in the context of the Division Two promotion race, Essex will be happy with their Northants counterparts.

  5. 100 runs

    100 for Patel

    Notts 237-8 v Middlesex

    While those around him have lost their wickets, Samit Patel has gone on to score his second Championship century of the summer.

    Still, I'd prefer to be in Middlesex's position currently.

  6. wicket

    WICKET S Curran (c Alsop b Dawson) 17

    Surrey 255-6 v Hampshire

  7. Back out at Taunton

    Somerset 0-0 & 95 v Warwickshire 123

    Did not expect this at 10:30 BST this morning...

  8. wicket

    WICKET Lehmann (c Pringle b Rushworth) 58

    Yorkshire 308-5 v Durham

    Jake Lehmann has his second Championship half century in his fourth match for Yorkshire, but is now back in the pavilion after picking out gully off Chris Rushworth - a member of our America-themed Cricket XI.

  9. wicket

    WICKET Wright (b Leach) 9

    Warwickshire 123 all out v Somerset 95

    Jack Leach, you're stealing Dom Bess' thunder, getting all up in his grill.

    Leach, the nasty man, stops Bess from taking seven in his first-ever Championship innings by bowling Chris Wright and Warwickshire's lead is only 28 runs.

    The spinners on both sides have a combined 9-76 today...

  10. Gidman finally dismissed

    Kent 201-8 v Northants

    In his fourth innings for Kent, Will Gidman is finally dismissed.

    The on-loan Nottinghamshire all rounder did make his fourth half-century though and now has an average of 283.0.

    I'd take that.

  11. wicket

    WICKET Ball (c Simpson b Rayner) 1

    Notts 219-8 v Middlesex

    Notts are starting to crumble now. Jake Ball edges Ollie Rayner behind to become the bowler's third victim of the day.

  12. wicket

    WICKET Patel (c Abell b Bess) 22

    Warwickshire 114-9 v Somerset 95

    Dom Bess, take a bow.

    The 19-year-old spinner has figures of 6-22 on Championship debut after Jeetan Patel plays him to cover.

    Can he get a seventh?

  13. Finn's up

    Notts 207-7 v Middlesex

    In the other match that will affect the top of Division One, Middlesex and England pace bowler Steven Finn now has three wickets against Notts.

    Brett Hutton is the man to have edged behind off Finn, but Samit Patel is still at the crease on 72.

  14. Lees gone

    Yorkshire 279-4 v Durham

    Yorkshire are another man down and it's an important one. Opener Alex Lees is out for a season's-best 132 thanks to a change up in the bowling attack from Durham.

  15. The debut Bears curse

    Warwickshire 108-8 v Somerset 95 all out

    Dom Bess is not the only man to have taken five wickets on his Championship debut this summer.

    Matt Parkinson produced the same feat on his debut for Lancashire against Warwickshire in June. Seems that this Bears side don't like debutant bowlers...

  16. 'Where's the Pimm's?'

    Kent 179-7 v Northants

    BBC Radio Northampton's Alex Winter:

    "Wickets tumbling for Kent at Beckenham but they've got themselves a very smart Northern outpost here. 

    "This is Northamptonshire's first visit for a first XI match - a number of the backroom staff recall the older open ground that without the tents of the festival wasn't very pleasant. 

    "But now this is very tidy indeed. Looking across the ground over Crystal Palace's training complex towards St Paul's Church, it reminded me a little of Wimbledon. Yet to see a Pimm's today though."

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  17. 100 runs

    100 for Burns and out

    Surrey 220-5 v Hampshire

    Surrey opener Rory Burns reaches his second century of the Championship season in a knock that has included 15 fours and a six.

    But no sooner than he does, he is caught off Brad Wheal's bowling.

  18. wicket

    WICKET Clarke (c Davies b Bess) 19

    Warwickshire 107-8 v Somerset 95

    I was saying?

    Somerset spinner Dom Bess has five wickets on his Championship debut after Rikki Clarke gloves a reverse sweep. 

    What a ridiculous match at Taunton. I suspect there will be some scrutiny of the pitch from the powers that be after this game.

  19. Warwickshire lead

    Warwickshire 107-7 v Somerset 95

    Warwickshire have a lead in the match at Taunton, and no matter how slender, in the context of this match it could be a HUGE 12 runs.

  20. Wicketwatch

    Gloucestershire 1-1 v Glamorgan 220

    A couple of wickets in Division Two have just fallen.

    Gloucestershire opener Gareth Roderick is taken in the slips off Timm van der Gugten in the first over of their first innings against Glamorgan to leave them 1-1.

    And Leicestershire finally have the breakthrough against Sussex as Ed Joyce is bowled by Charlie Shreck.

    Still, Sussex trail by 53 runs with nine wickets remaining.